I sometimes have difficulty replying to the bigotry I
encounter on YouTube. I have to concentrate hard if I’m to respond eloquently
and rationally, but without anger or vindictiveness – to follow the Buddhist, and
entirely proper in my opinion, edict to exercise non-judgemental observation. I
frequently fail in this regard when it comes to my blog posts, tending instead to
allow the primal me to show through. But evidence suggests that a lot more
people read my YouTube comments than read my blog, so I have to be more careful.
I had this problem tonight. I think I’m getting better at
it. It is, after all, my soul that’s at stake.
And you may accuse me of a little arrogance if you wish, and
I wouldn’t entirely disagree. I’m trying to get better at that, too. I’ve
almost completely excised didacticism from my system, but Rome wasn’t built in a day.
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